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The electromagnetic spectrum is open source 📡
What’s really cool is that you can broadcast bitcoin transactions over radio.
Ham permissionless? Not in the US.
Local hams are willing to turn you in to the FCC if you're not licensed. In addition, the military can easily wipe out your signal, preventing anyone from hearing you.
So real here almost any walkie that has some range is illegal without a license
JuSt gEt uR haM lICeNSe bRo
If YoU gEt Ur LiCeNsE, nO oNe CaN sQuElCh YoU!
While this is true, the vast majority of the Earth's population would struggle to send one over the "Normal" channels. The number of people, with the technical expertise to send one over radio waves, is, in my opinion, less than 10,000 people. Probably closer to 1K🤷🏻♂️.
There are potentially legal consequences if you transmit without a license. The most likely of which is they tell you to stop.
If you are worried about it, pay the $35 and get license.
Thank you for further clarifying my point.
that doesn't make it not-permissionless. you can "get in trouble" for using bitcoin, too, but you don't need permission or an invite to **do it**.
i can **Just do radio** similarly. it's just electromagnetic waves.
still permissionless. you guys are talking about after-the-fact consequences, not insurmountable barriers to action.
exactly. it's just physics
By that logic, everything that has regulation is really permissionless.
Want to build a five-story tower next to your property line? Go for it!
Open a factory in a residential area! Just do it!
yes.
Sending mail by horse is another option.
The US government sadly wants you to have a license from taking an exam in order to be a HAM operator. There is an app called bitchat that uses bluetooth to send text messages with no license.
Over great distances too
Hell yeah. Become ungovernable!
Fun fact: the callsigns of the recently deceased stay active in the FCC's system for up to 10 years.
It gets better: you can use cheap walkie-talkies to talk directly with satellites and send free SMS to others up to 1500 KM away.
This is from the last NOSTR event in Portugal some two months ago, we'll soon have NOSTR through space: back to earth.
JFYI: basic radio license in the US is 5 USD and the exam is remote. Costs more the FCC registration which is 35 USD or so.
Anways, that is just to get an official radio callsign and additional frequencies.
You can use radio in CB (Citizen Band) around 27Mhz and so on without any license, this is valid throughout most of the world and used heavily by truck drivers.
Thank you for further solidifying my point.
In addition, CB is not Ham Radio (the hastag in the OP)
This. Radio is evidence that God wants us to be free.
View quoted note →The online exam is pretty easy. Multiple questions with the same answer that you can practice with phone apps until you get almost all of them right.
Why do you think I care about getting a license?
Wasn't meant specifically for you, rather for those reading the conversation that are interested on the topic.
Situational awareness matters.
The more people on radio, the better.
In the future, please don't tag me if the message isn't for me. Thank you.
i installed geogram recently!
Nice!
Working on that feature. It is called "postcard" where you basically use phones to physically transport messages to another part of the country.
Messages are of course verifiable and if desires, private.
sneakernet 🫡
sneaker net mesh grids are so the future of free digital sharing. ive been pondering simple “subscription” mechanisms that grab the most recent copy of an item as you, say ride your bike past a broadcast node stashed on top of a Starbucks
god yes i'm drooling
On geogram they are called "collections" because you can synch files/folders with books, games, videos (this is for the prepper world) but it isn't yet working specifically as a sneakernet.
This is the basic structure to permit sharing, searching and browsing files:
GitHub
central/docs/collections/others/README.md at main · geograms/central
Central location for documentation and other data. Contribute to geograms/central development by creating an account on GitHub.
I haven't yet ported the collections to the most recent version of geogram but should arrive within a month or so. First solving the topics of bluetooth and radio networks until they are more solid.
im interested in a simple protocol.
probably hashes with timestamps
If you look, there is a single json with that hash and update info. The rest is for additional features.
For example: when searching you need to find info fast when having more than a million files that include movies and books. So there is another json there which includes text from videos and summaries from PDF books to ease finding them inside an ocean of files.
1 TB memory cards are cheap nowadays, so we needed a way to search things at level offline with delays. Difficult to get simpler than two or three files as you see there.
They can point a gun at you and say: no, no, no, no
